Filter: dynamictext

Plugin Information

title: Dynamic text
media types: Video
description: Overlay dynamic text onto the video
version: 1
creator: Brian Matherly
license: LGPLv2.1

Notes

The dynamic text filter will search for keywords in the text to be overlayed and will replace those keywords on a frame-by-frame basis.

Parameters

argument

title: Dynamic text
description: The text to overlay. May include keywords enclosed in "#". Keywords include: * #timecode# - timecode of the frame (based on framerate and position) * #frame# - frame number of the frame * #filedate# - modification date of the file Keywords may also be any frame property (e.g. #meta.media.0.codec.frame_rate#) The # may be escaped with "\".
type: string
readonly: no
required: true
widget: text

geometry

title: Geometry
description: A set of X/Y coordinates by which to adjust the text.
type: geometry
readonly: no
required: no
default: 0%/0%:100%x100%:100

family

title: Font family
description: The typeface of the font.
type: string
readonly: no
required: no
default: Sans
widget: combo

size

title: Font size
description: The size in pixels of the font.
type: integer
readonly: no
required: no
default: 48
widget: spinner

weight

title: Font weight
description: The weight of the font.
type: integer
readonly: no
required: no
minimum: 100
maximum: 1000
default: 400
widget: spinner

fgcolour

title: Foreground color
description: A color value is a hexadecimal representation of RGB plus alpha channel as 0xrrggbbaa. Colors can also be the words: white, black, red, green, or blue. You can also use a HTML-style color values #rrggbb or #aarrggbb.
type: string
readonly: no
required: no
default: 255
widget: color

bgcolour

title: Background color
description: A color value is a hexadecimal representation of RGB plus alpha channel as 0xrrggbbaa. Colors can also be the words: white, black, red, green, or blue. You can also use a HTML-style color values #rrggbb or #aarrggbb.
type: string
readonly: no
required: no
default: 32
widget: color

olcolour

title: Outline color
description: A color value is a hexadecimal representation of RGB plus alpha channel as 0xrrggbbaa. Colors can also be the words: white, black, red, green, or blue. You can also use a HTML-style color values #rrggbb or #aarrggbb.
type: string
readonly: no
required: no
widget: color

outline

title: Outline Width
description: The width of the outline in pixels.
type: string
readonly: no
required: no
minimum: 0
maximum: 3
default: 0
widget: spinner

pad

title: Padding
description: The number of pixels to pad the background rectangle beyond edges of text.
type: integer
readonly: no
required: no
default: 0
widget: spinner

halign

title: Horizontal alignment
description: Set the horizontal alignment within the geometry rectangle.
type: string
readonly: no
required: no
default: left
widget: combo
values:

• left
• centre
• right

valign

title: Vertical alignment
description: Set the vertical alignment within the geometry rectangle.
type: string
readonly: no
required: no
default: top
widget: combo
values:

• top
• middle
• bottom